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A81992	Seismos megas. Or Heaven & earth shaken. A treatise shewing how kings, princes, and their governments are turned and changed by Jesus Christ as [brace] King of Kings, and King of Saints. / By John Davis, M.A. sometime lecturer at Christ Church in London, and now pastour of a congregation in Dover.	Davis, John, pastor of a congregation in Dover.	1655 (1655)	Wing D422; Thomason E1601_2	153,991	331

they are in the darke and that your zeale may provoke very may You must hold out the word of life you have not onely the word of light but the word of life within you which to you is a quickning word dividing asunder between the joynts and marrow and this word of light and life this living word you are to hold out for your light must shine before men that they may see your good works before men most men are in darknesse and sit in darknesse carnal sensual men cannot receive the things of God and yet God requires such a shining in you that these men these blind men may some way see and here again observe it must be good works and good works with light not barely good words or good profession that will convince them you may talke long enough and these men will never see any good unlesse you worke it frequently and constantly You must glorifie your Father which is in heaven and they by you It was Christ his work upon earth and it s yours and he finished that work and so should you Joh. 17. Herein is my Father glorified that you bring forth much fruit so shall ye be my Disciples You must be abounding and abounding alway in the work of the Lord knowing your labour is not in vain filled with the fruits of righteousnesse which are by Christ to the glory of the Father giving all diligence and adding to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly-kindnesse and to brotherly-kindnesse love These things must be in you and abound in you that ye may not be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ You have been the servants of sin long enough now it concerns you to obey from the heart the form of Doctrine into which you were delivered It lies upon you to raise common things by holy ends and to turne outward objects into spiritual converse If you do but eat and drink walk or work work or recreate what ever ye do in word or deed it must be all to the glory of God in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ giving thanks to God the Father by him Eating and drinking are but natural actions but they must have Gods glory as their end Nature may teach you to give thanks but it s the Gospel that teacheth you in your thanksgiving to haverecourse to God the Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus The meanesse of your condition must not hinder the raisednesse of you holinesse Suppose you are servants the Gospel teacheth you how to make your service to become divine Col. 3. 22. Servants obey in all things your Masters not with eye-service as men-pleasers but in singlenesse of heart fearing God and whatever you do do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive a reward for ye serve the Lord Christ You must obey your Masters but so as you must declare you are fearing God while you are obeying them you must render them service but not eye-service God requires the heart for himselfe and when he requires your respect to another he requires your heart thereto How unlike is your complemental expression of saying Your servant your humble servant Sir to the singlenesse of heart here mentioned You must please men and yet not be men-pleasers but please God in the pleasing of them you must do and do heartily but as to the Lord and not to men and there 's good reason for it for of him you must receive the reward for ye serve the Lord Christ he tells you of serving men and serving Christ yea serving Christ in serving men and thus you greaten little and highten low things You should be persons of a raised manner of behaviour in all actions states and conditions in all holy conversation and godlinesse But most of all when you come to worship God who will be sanctified in his nigh ones and glorified before all the people Levit. 10. 3. To worship God is to be neer to him you are then under a promise of his special presence But then he will be sanctified either you must sanctifie him or he will sanctifie himselfe he must be sanctified either in and by you in the holinesse of your hearts or upon you in the execution of his just judgements You must not think to content your selves with pretence to worship God alone in your Closet or Family but you must worship him also before all the people and that is a glorifying him You must worship the Father Joh. 4. 24. but it must be in spirit and truth Gospel-worship hath lesse outward pompe and ceremony then that under the Law and therefore it must have more of plainesse and purity else God should be a loser You must pray alwayes Eph. 6. 18. with all manner of prayer and supplication not prate but pray repetition of words in form of confessions or petition are not prayer your praying must be in the spirit your spirits in prayer must be drawn forth and acted by Gods spirit your affections must be spiritual or you cannot pray it may be babling and howling but praying it is not unlesse it be in the spirit your heads may work and your lips may move but it s no prayer if the heart lie still the voice of words is not the voice of prayer but the sighs and groans that cannot be uttered Rom. 8. 26 27. You must lift up your souls in prayer lay hold on the strength of the Almighty and wrastle with him not letting him alone until he blesse you Jesus Christ hath set up and set open a Throne of grace and given us a boldnesse of accesse Eph. 3. 12. You must come in his Name with confidence Aske and you shall bave seeke and you shall finde knock and it shall be opened to you You must watch and pray yea watch unto prayer with all perseverance and joy Eph. 6. 18. You lose many sweet praying opportunities by not watching your season you lose the acting and improvement of many graces and obtaining of many precious comforts and sweet returnes by not persevering in prayer Far be it from you to pray as a task or as a work which you are soon weary of and glad when it is over but you must persevere in prayer and pray with joy and joy to pray You must attend at the posts of Wisdomes door Prov 8. 34. Laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyes and all evil speakings as new born babes desire the sincere milke of the word that you may grow thereby 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sincere milke the form of wholesome words not sugared with the wisdome of words but coming in the demonstration of the spirit and with power That word desire and desire as new born babes out of

yet if you weigh things in a Sanctuary Ballance you will finde such actings and workings as faith can rise up unto although sense cannot And when God will worke more of his great works by them then he will highthen our faith to apprehend them more Doth Christ in these great turnes use the ministration of Angels then surely he himselfe is far above them the Lord is above the servant and he to whom the administration is is above them that minister above them then he is and above them in these turnes for Heb. 1. 2. He is said to make the worlds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secula the several ages of the world Mr. Dixon in his Commentary on the place saith he callet● it the worlds for the variety of times and ages and fleeces of the creatures one succeeding another You wrong Jesus Christ if you converse not with him in all these inferiour motions he is the primum mobile the first mover and other things move after him The whole first Chapter to the Hebrews sets forth the excellency of Christ far above that of Angels which here I shall give you a briefe account of Take notice How he gives the full due to Angels the full due of their glory It s granted they are the sonnes of God as Ad●m is said to be Luke 3. 38. in that they had their immediate being from him and accordinly sang unto him and sh●uted for joy Job 38. 7. They have an excellent name which implyes an excellent nature Names are put to expresse the natures of things and excellent names to excellent things among which Angels are to be rank●d Th●y are His Angels of him and for him and therefore excellent They are spirits having a simple unc●mpounded being and therefore an excellent being They are as flames of fire of lightning that speedily execute his will ministring spirits as v. 14. But now Jesus Christ hath by inheritance obtained a far more excellent name then they they are made very good but he is made far better He is so a Son as they are not a Son by way of eminency he is a Son and first b●gotten which they are not He is appointed heir of all things which the Angels are not but even they are part of his possession given to be his servants He is the brightnesse of the Fathers glory so are not Angels Angels hold forth much of God but they are not the Character of his Person as Christ is They are used in the government of this world but he upholds all things by the word of his power Truth it is they do much service and do it cheerfully and vigorously but they can never do that service that Christ doth He by himselfe purged our sin which is a worke too great for them he takes his place where they cannot they may stand about the Throne and waite the pleasure of God but he sits down at the right hand of his glory He is God and they are but ●●eatures and owe him for their being v. 7. as do the Heaven and Earth v. 10. In regard of his humane nature He hath the oyl of gladnesse above his fellows and so loves righteousnesse and hates iniquity more then Angels He hath a Throne and that for ever and its honour enough for Angels to waite about it Many are the enemies of this Throne and Kingdome but God will make them his footstoole Thus you see Angels are but Ministers although glorious Ministers Christ is more glorious then they Let me adde one word more to exhort you 1. To draw your eyes to behold these glorious workes It s a curious study to search into Gods providences he imprints much of himselfe upon them and that by his choice servants his Angels 2. Let no discouragement seize upon you as to the Times Measures Methods Instruments of these things God hath his own houshold servants which he can and will imploy at his pleasure 3. And shall not this afford some elevation of your hearts in love to God when he doth on your behalfe imploy his best attendance 4. Lastly let it mightily provoke all the servants of God his precious Worthies to come forth and goe on in the service of these latter times It s no worse businesse you are called forth unto then Christ puts his Angels about Oh! then let not your hands hang down nor your knees be feeble Study what worke is put into your hands and do it with all your might Are you called to counsel or to act at home or abroad by Sea or by Land Oh! lift up your heads and rejoyce that God hath counted you worthy to be under-powers in these transactions value it as your happinesse to have been in his hand Let not the thoughts of danger or difficulty discourage you you are about Angels worke and you should have Angels spirits you have their help and you shall have a reward not inferiour to their condition I should now according to the opening of the words as we have spoken of the inhabitants of heaven and their shaking so proceed to shew the shaking of the Inhabitants of that part of the earth that is called a Continent as also the shaking of the inhabitants of the Sea and the inhabitants of Islands but these things I shall not handle now but hasten to what I intend in this Book CHAP. VII Opens the shake of Kings and Princes because 1. They make the great turns in the Earth 2. They pretend exemption from mans power 3. Dealing with them is a compendious way of dealing with the Nations 4. Being decked with worldly glory they seem to be Christs match Vses of Instruction and Exhortation HEaven as you heard Cháp 3 denotes by a Metaphor the highest things Thus when the Prophet Moses speaks of the high walls of a City D●ut 1. 28. He tells them of a City walled up to heaven It is the language of the Prophets to compare a Kingdome to a World and what is highest in a Kingdome to what is highest in the World Satan is called 2 Cor. 4. 4. The god of this World and when he was in the highest of his ●ff●ctual working in the children of disobedience when he wrought so in them that they exalted him as a God by worshipping of him when he had his heathenish Priests Altars Sacrifices Feast-dayes in the time of the Emperours as Jehovah God had his among his people Israel then is Satan said to be in Heaven because in so great hight in the World Rev. 12. 7 8. The Dragon is said to be in heaven in regard that he was exalted and observed as a God But when his Tempels Idols and Altars were demolished he is there and then said to be cast out of heaven The heathenish Kings and Princes that were most forward and shining in this hellish heaven are called Stars Isa 61. 15 16. When God brings Israel out